Lightning Talk




Daniel Weiand
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

ONS Data Science Graduate Programme (2023) | October 9

Setting the scene

Integrated Laboratory Medicine

  • Fully HTA, MHRA & UKAS accredited

  • Hundreds of scientific and technical staff

  • 11+m samples per annum

Strengths

  • Modern diagnostics

  • Cerner electronic health record (EHR) feat. Nautilus data warehouse (2019)

  • Cerner laboratory information management system (LIMS) (2024)

  • Modern surveillance system for infection prevention and control (ICNET) (2024)

  • Rapidly increasing data science capability

  • Full support for modern data science tools (R, Python, GitHub, Slack, etc..)

Opportunities


Case study

Parameterised prediction and reporting of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)


Benefits to patients

  • Informs clinical decision-making

  • Helps target (limited) infection prevention and control resources

  • Assists with updating of antimicrobial guidelines

  • Justifies further investment in our data science capability

Thanks for listening

Daniel Weiand, Consultant medical microbiologist

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Email: dweiand@nhs.net

NHS-R community blog: https://nhsrcommunity.com/author/daniel-weiand/

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